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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
The Horse Wore Goggles.

A horse with goggles was one of the
attractions of the Clinton Square market
place Saturday afternoon. The Manlius
farmer who owned him said he discov-
cred recently that the animal was very
near-sighted, and an oculist to whom he
took the nag said so, too. The eye man
took the necessary dimensions and,
sending to New York, had pair of con-
cave spectacles made expressly for Dob
bin. When the farmer tried them for
the first time the horse appeared to be
startled, but, recovering from his sur
prise, manifested every symptom of
pleasure. They are made so as to be
firmly fastened in the headstall and
cannot be Worn without that piece of
harness.
"When / turn him out to pasture, -
said the farmer, che feels uneasy and
uncomfortable without the goggles, and
last Sunday ne hung around the barn
and whinneyed so plaintive like that l
took out the bit and put the headstall
and goggles on him, and he was so glad
that he rubbed my shoulder with his
nose. Then he kicked up his heels and
danced down to the pasture. You ought
to have seen him. [ hate to let him
wear specs all the time, though, for
fear he will break them. "--Syracuse
Standard.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
A Circus all to Himself.

The old man Winans, says a Balti-
more correspondent, is very unpopular
among his neighbors; indeed, popularity
is not one of his characteristics. Apart
from engineering and shipbuilding, it is
almost impossible to interest him in any
serious matter. PATHS singing and the
circus are the only forms of amusement
he processes to like. It is related of him
that once in Russia an American man
ager brought circus company to St.
Petersburg, and, hearing of Mr.. Wi
nans's fondness for the exhibitions of the
sawdust ring, went to him and suggest
ed that he should shell out pretty con
siderable sum for boxes. SO large was
the amount demanded that Mr.. Winans
asked Indignantly if he was expected to
pay for the whole performance. "Well, -
answered he of the brassy cheek, Il
haven't the slightest objection" Mr..
Winans was SO tickled by HIS ineffable
impudence that he bought the whole
house. On the night of the performance
he presented himself with q friend OF
two and sat out the whole thing, to the
delight and amusement of the perform
ers in the ring, whom he made to ans
wer his encores and act just as though
there were a thousand spectators instead
of two or three.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
The Origin of the Fairy Cinderella.

1t has been said that not one sweet girl
in so, 900 knows the origin of the friend
of her babyhood, Cinderella. A CORE
spondent sends me the following: "Cin-
derella's real name was Rhodope, and she
was a beautiful Egyptian maiden, who
lived go years before the common era
and during the reign of Psammeticus, one
of the twelve Kings of Egypt. One day
Rhodope ventured to battle in a clear
stream near her home, and meanwhile
left her shoes, which must have been
unusually small, lying on the bank. An
eagle passing above Glanced to catch
sight of the little sandals, and installing
them for toothsome tidbit, pounced
down and carried one off in his beak
The bird unwittingly played the part of
fairy godmother, for, flying directly over
Memphis, where King Psammeticus was
dispensing justice, it let the shoe fall
right into the Kings lap. It's size, beauty
and daintiness Immediately attracted the
royal eye, and the King, determined upon
knowing the wearer of so cunning a shoe,
sent through all his kingdom in search of
the foot that would fit it. The messen-
ger finally discovered Rhodope, fitted on
the shoe ard carried her in triumph to
Memphis, where she became the Queen
of the King Psammeticus. "-L0nd0n
Ej11rO
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
The Language of the Day.

The student of languages seems to neg
lect the office boys dialect. SO long as
this neglect continues we shall never
know the derivation of the strange words
and phrases employed by the youth in
neglecting duties he is hired to perform.
Thus the merchant to the office boy:
Tommy, my inkstand is almost
empty? Fill it as soon as you can.
Office Boy to Bookkeeper-Boss wants
smink ritoff.
Merchant Tommy, send this letter
mp in the box to Mr.. Scrivner, and see
that he takes it out.
Office boy puts the missive in the box
and CLUES his thumb to the bell button
Mr.. Scrivncr with the voice of Ute
chieG-Well, what's the matter down
there
Office Boy (calmly)-Plup box.
The box is pulled up.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
Characteristic of Henry $. Ives.

Ives is as commonplace fellow as you
will find anywhere, says a New York
letter. If he is downtown he will drop
in at O lunch counter and eat 30-cent
lunch with clerks and brokers, making
no more ado about it than he did when
he was a clerk himself, He will dine at
DelmonicO's the same evening, perhaps,
with millionaires, and the cost of the
dinner may run into the hundreds. He
is as much at home there as he was at
the lunch counter, and he never loses
his head. Ives has the most wonderful
self-contidence of any man [ have ever
known. He is the most plausible of
men, and, notwithstanding his boyish-
ness, he has a wonderful power of in
huencing men. l don't think he has a
great moral sense. His religion, like
that of BOnaparte, is success, and he re
CARDS obstacles only as to be overcome.
Any means which Will overcome these
are right, and [ doubt whether his con
science troubles him in the least us to
what he has done. Had he succeeded
in floating his last So, 500, 600 of stock
he would have completed his road to the
Pacific and would have been the great
financier of the day. As it is, 1t Is I'M
possible to say whether he will escape
the courts. His methods have not been
much unlike many of those practlsed ON
the Street, save that he has taken III the
brokers, while they have heretofore
gobbled outsiders.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
TIE WAY TO SING,
The birds must know. Who wisely sings
VIII sing as they;

The birds must know. Who wisely sings
Win sing as they;
The common air has generous wings,
Songs make their way.
No messenger to run before,
Devising plan;
No mention of the pace or hour
To any man;
No waiting till some sound betrays
A listening ear;
No different voice, no new delays,
If steps draw near.
What BIRD is that! Its song is good
And eager eyes
Go peering through the dusky wood
In glad 81 rprise.
Then late at night, when by his fire
The traveller sits;
Watching the flames grow brighter, higher
The sweet song fits
BY snatches through his weary brain
To help him rest.
When next he goes that road again,
An empty nest
On leaflesS bough will make him sigh,
"Ah, mel Last spring
Just here l heard in passing by,
That rare bird sing!"
But while he sings, remembering
How sweet the soug,
The little bird on tireless wing,
Is borne along
In other air, and other men,
With weary feet,
On other roads, the simple strain
Are finding sweet.
The birds must know. Who wisely sings
VIII sing as they;
The common air has generous wings,
Songs make their way
Helen Hunt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
THE DRUG PRICER.
Gifted and Rare, but 1t Would Take
Time for Him to Save a Million.

An advertisement in O commercial
paper, called for drug pricer, expert
enced in the wholesale and retail trade.
A wholesale druggist, who was asked
about the duties of pricer, said:
"The pricer fixes the prices of the
goods sold in each bill. The pricer in
the drug business must have an init
mate acquaintance with an exceedingly
large line of goods, and must keep
posted on the fluctuations in values of
things for which, for instance, he may
not have a call once year. In the
dr"g business we make five per cent. on
some goods, and ON some fifteen, and on
some fifty. 1t costs, say, ten per cent.
to run the business, and we must make
up what we lose on the five per cent.
goods out of the fifteen per cent. goods.
Sometimes we can, on account of the
fluctuations of costs, get greater profits
than at others. The pricer is the most
important employee of the house, for
on his knowledge and skill the success
of the house depends. He must have
a wonderful memory for names and fig
ures, and he must be able to forestall
changes IN the market. He is usually
familiar with the processes of manufac-
ture, and can tell you all about the
gathering of opium in India and the
curing of ginseng in the United States.
'"Then every wholesale druggist must
be pricer, too ?"
''On the contrary; not one in dozen
knows anything about the prices of the
goods he owns. The pricer does it all"
"What sort of pay does such a man
command 2"
"Well, competent men are scarce
They are hard to find, and when a firm
gets one it hangs on to him. A young
man who was trained under me went to
another firm and got 50, 500 year He
has since been IA sed to So, COO"
Gas salaries for scarce men go in New
York that does not seem to be extrava-
CANT.
"No? Well, it's good pay in the
drug business mighty good; and there
are plenty of statesmen, who are the
next thing to pricers in the matter of
knowledge, who get only $1,000 and
81, 900. ~. Y. Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS GONE.
Parents Happy Over the Home Com
ing of a Son Thought Dead.
From the PhiladeIphia Press. ]

Old Jim" Morrison, of Fifth street,
below Federal, held levee last night IN
honor of the return of his long lost son,
Christopher.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Morrison was
seated in his cigar store making drafts
upon his endless store of "reminiscences,
which cover q space of seventy years,
when a ia stranger entered. The old
gentleman rose to wait on his supposed
customer, who at once sat down by the
side of the venerable Morrison, and,
without prelude, said I'm looking
for old Jim Morrison. | haven't seen
him for many year, but a" Here
"Jim' interrupted him. There was a
twinkle under his gray brows. "What
old 'Jim2' Well, L ought to know him,
he's lived down in these diggins all his
life, and" Suddenly a light broke
upon him, and leaving his facetious SEN
tence unfinished, his chin quivered and
he calculated: "My God! is this
Chris 2"
It was ''Chris," his long-lost son, and
the old gentleman tainted for the first
time in his life as his sons muscular
arms closed around him. The mother,
hearing the connection, came into the
sto and fell weeping for Joy into the
arms of her boy. The latter, tall,
brOnzed, we'll proportional man with q
blonde moustache, soon proved his iden-
tity. For over twenty-One years he has
been missing; no word concerning him
has ever reached the ears of his old
father and mother, who often wondered
where he was buried, for he was given
E., 1O,o1r nd oO11ota1 &C
more link missing of the original circle
of fifteen children who called the grizzled
old man Gather"
At the breaking out of the war James
Morrison, with his three sons, Harry,
Robert and Christopher, enlisted in diff
ferent regiments. ''Chris" and his
father knew nothing of each other dur
ing the war, and the former was late in
being mustered out. One night he
dropped in on the family just as they
were seated at supper. As his father
said: "He was young, and army life
made him kind O. wild, and 50 one day
soon after we missed him. We heard
nothing of him till now, and thought
him dead"
''Chris" last night explained that he
Thought he'd try the West" His life
has been spent in cattle raising and
farming in almost every part of the cat
tie raising Territories. He married
and had family of four children and
buried them all. Feeling lonely, he con-
Guided to drop farming and visit his old
father, if he was alive.
On his way East he was in the train
which was wrecked ON the Y of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad in Washington,
being the only one in the smoking car
not injured. The ice-cooler hit him in
the breast, and he was knocked sense
less and taken from the train, but, other
than the shock, he suffered no injuries.
He staid in Washington two days and
left for Philadelphia, but st outside of
Baltimore train ran into and smashed
the car in front of him. This scared
him and he left the train and took the
boat for this city, arriving safely.
cold Jim" for fifteen years was in the
Post Office, but was one of the first dis
charged vIeaasasrvsTdrsrrr--
the felnS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

lying outside the bar going to leave that
night. So my partner engaged room
for us both. He took all the baggage
over, and that night got a lighter man
to slip me on board, and we were soon
on our way to New Orleans. About
three months after that was playing
the bank in New Orleans, and had about
81, 800 worth of checks in front of me.
A man touched me on the back, and
when [ looked around, who should I see
but my New YORK friend. He was on
his way home, and said he wanted me
to let him have $50 I handed him a
hundred, shook him kindly by the
hand, and he left. found out after
ward that his father paid every dollar of
the money. That's the way I got re-
venge for the insult of being arrested for
such a crime as winning a gentleman's
money at card table.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

No ThraShing Machines in India.

Needless to remark, says Harold Cox,
there are no thrashing machines in India;
as among the Jews in the days of the Old
Testament, the corn is trodden out by
oxen. This practice largely accounts for
the dirty condition in which Indian
wheat arrives in England. The method
of winnowing employed in India has also
the merits of simplicity and antiquity.
Choosing a windy day, the cultivator or
one of his family, or laborer, takes
quantity of unwinnowed corn into
basket specially made for the purpose,
and, lifting it up, lets the corn gradually
fall to the ground, the wind blowing the
chaff away. An exactly similar method
is employed in Italy and parts of France,
and perhaps is still known in parts of
England. For cleaning the wheat be
fore grinding the same method is EN-
| ployed, another man sometimes standing
by with another basket, tanning the
wheat as it falls, in order to more
effectually blow off the dirt.
More than 1000, 900 pounds of tipfoil
are used annually to cover the SMOKING
and chewing tobacco manufactured in
the United States alone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
8. TI,c RIood the Life"

fountain of health, by using DR.. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery, and good digestion, fair
skin, buOyant spirits, vital strengtntahd SOUND
ness of constitution will be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humorS,
from the common pimple, blotch, or eruption,
to the worst Scrofula, or Od-pCison1 Espe-
cially has it proven its efficacy i'll curing Salt
rheum or letter, Fever sores, Hip-joint Disease,
Scrofulous sores and Swelhngs' Enlarged
Glands. and Eating Ulcers.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Consump-
ton (Which is Scfofua of the Lungs, by its
wonderful blood-purifying, inyig0rating ana
nutritive properties For Weak Lungs, Spit
ting of Blood, Shortness of Breath. Bronchitis,
Severe Coughs Asthma, and kindred aHec-
tiOns, it is sovereign remedy IL promptly
cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver, BiliOusness, or Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia and Indigestion, 1t Is
an unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
aConstantIH Fayrking nnd Spitting.,

THOMAS ]. RUSHING, Esq, 2902 Pine Street,
st. Louis, No, writes: 81 was great sufferer
from catarrh for three years. At times could
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils. l
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
lily, | was advised TO try DIR. Sagc's Catarrh
Remedy and l am now well man. / believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give il a
fair trial to experience astounding results and
permanent cure"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
Three BOTTLES Cure Catarrb.

ELI ROBBINS, RunVdn p. o., Columbia Co.,
Pa, says: My daughter had catarrh when
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised and pro-
cured a bottle for her and soon saw that it
helped her; third bottle effected a pcrma-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

So WICKED. There is q citizen of
San Bernardino, Cal, says the CoHrter
of that place, who years ago decided
that kissing was wicked, because Christ
was betrayed with kiss. He has been
married twenty years and is the father
of eleven children, but has never kissed
his wife nor one OF his offspring.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
"UntoId Agony from Catarrh.,

Prof W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist,
of Ithaca N. y, writes: "Some ten years ago
| suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
incurable, and said l must die. My case was
such bad one, that every day, towards sun
set my voice would become so hOarse | could
barely speak above a whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat would
almost strangle me. BY the use of DIR. Sages
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was well
man, and the cure has been permanent
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

"THE devil still some mischief finds
for idle hands to do, said the man who
set his watch by the Old State House
clock this week and then found the
ticker had been stopped for two days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

silk and bilious headache, and all derange-
mants of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr.
Pierce's "Pellets''-Or anti-bilious granules. -
cents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste Of
virtues BY DRUGGISTS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

Mrs. Elizabeth Shepard, of Bridgeport,
Conn, celebrated her goth birthday recently,
and, though not in vigorous health, bids far
to become a centenarian.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

4 Delicate diseases of either sex radi-
callv cured. Send 10 cents in stamps for book.
Address, Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton. Buffalo. y. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

One of the rare productions of Jackson
county. Mich, is a white rattlesnake with
seven rattles 1t belongs to Richard Crouch,
and iS uI1ite tame.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

"RoYAL GLUE" mends anything! Broken
China, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs 4 Gro
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

Every man who has decision of character
will have enemies and the man who has no
decision and no character can have no good
F,;o ,1c
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

If afr cted with sore eyes use DR. Isaac Thorn
sons Eye water. Druggists sell at 25C per bottle
PIsos REMEDY for Catarrh is aGr cable to
use. 1t is not a liquid or snuff. SOC.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

The Iox'e craze is the latest, and it BIDS
piace of stimulantS, and tOnics, leaving no re-
action. Consequently, its place, cannot be
filled The medical world, il is said, have | cen
waiting for some one to discover its like, as
stimulants are only q temporary r'lef, and
are eventually as destructive TO nerve force as
overwork and exhaustion. Stlmulah's ana
medicines never cure nervousness or nervous
exhaustion. 1t is said the MoXie does at once.
Stop, the appetite for liquors as well, satisfies
the nervous system as well, at once, leaving
only the best results.
A fine little story comes from Rockville, H.,
vincr, was about to Strike a baby cat
D0unced upon the snake and killed it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

To the Good name at home" won by Hoods Sarsa
Dara In Lowell, Mass, where it is prepared there
is more Hoods Sarsaparilla sold than OF all other
medicines Whole neghborhoods are taking it at the
same time and it has given the best Of satisfaction
since its introduction ten years ago This could not be
If the medicine did not possess merit. II you suffer
from impure blood or debility try Hoods Sarsapara
and YOU viii realize its peculiar curative power.
81 had salt rheum my left arm three years, suf-
fering terribly. took Hoods Sarsaparllla, and the
rheum has entirely disappeared" II. NJ. MILLS u
French ST., Lowell, Mass.
Hoods SarSaparilla
Sold by all druggists 81 six for S.. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & co. Apothecaries, Lowell Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29

knowledge rsr duties is the most
useful part o: pi.iloso ~.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
we = ointW with Pride

For SPECIAL r TIES for Advertising IN this paper
ARMY to the m blisber of the paper. U3S
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-29
Hoods SaYsaparilla
KID o Z n $

100 Doses One Dollar
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-15

Underlying the whole trial; con-
demnation and carrying out of the
death sentence in the case of the an
archists, there is a lesson to which
this country had better turn a listen
ing ear, and that is to stop the riff
raft, the outlaws of whatever nation,
from coming here. As has
been demonstrated in unmis-
taxable terms, anarchy has not been
left in Europe because anarchists have
flown to America. Every seed sown
In their breasts for hundreds of years
has grown and fourished and found
fruition, and the tender protection
OF this government will not cause it
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-15

to die-on the contrary, were it heav-
en- itself, compared with the oppres-
sion of their own land, they would
sneer and jeer it, because, as a class,
they are lawless and hate anything
like control. Prescribed in their own
country, hunted and pushed at bay.
the savage hatred of government-no
matter how wise. or beneficial, is q
part of their very existence and their
blood runs red with a de-
sire to overthrow it. That the con-
demned anarchists deserved death, none
but sentimentalists of the gushing
and slushy type can deny, bat that
their death will serve for more than a
check, remains to be seen. The
summing up seems to be involved in
the shutting off of emigration unless
men are willing to take cast iron
oath Of allegiance to this government,
the best the world has ever known
and the best in all probability, it ever
will or can know.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-15

The people of Oregon, by an over
whelming majority, have voted down
the prohibition amendment, and cities
of Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Du-
buque, Davenport, Burlington and
Keokuk in Iowa. have elected anti.
prohibition tickets by large MAORI
ties. There is a revolt against sump-
tuous laws, and it is well. Here in
Missouri, where our most eHterpris-
ing citizens have millions invested in
a legitimate industry, it is time to cry
q halt on those who would destroy
that business, confscate the millions
of private capital invested without
the shadow of right, and in direct
violation of the principles of personal
and civil liberty. Those who believe
that spirituous and malt beverages are
an injury to them, should not partake
of the same, but they have no right
to dictate to others what they should
eat, drink, or wear. x